items tagged with National Broadband Network
Comms Alliance defines first NBN wholesale services
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Technology
2009-11-18 23:48:15
Communications Alliance has released a paper proposing a definition for wholesale ethernet services to be provided by the National Broadband Network and other broadband infrastructures.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Technology
2009-11-18 23:48:15
Communications Alliance has released a paper proposing a definition for wholesale ethernet services to be provided by the National Broadband Network and other broadband infrastructures.
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TransACT preparing IPTV upgrade
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Industry
2009-10-21 23:38:57
Communications provider TransACT will upgrade its system to deliver IPTV to customers. The company's fibre network covers Canberra and Queanbeyan.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Industry
2009-10-21 23:38:57
Communications provider TransACT will upgrade its system to deliver IPTV to customers. The company's fibre network covers Canberra and Queanbeyan.
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Comms Alliance reveals its NBN architecture options
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-10-15 02:34:57
Communications Alliance has released a discussion paper setting out a draft of its vision of the NBN network architecture: a vision that it says would be required to deliver a broad range of network, application and content services to end users.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-10-15 02:34:57
Communications Alliance has released a discussion paper setting out a draft of its vision of the NBN network architecture: a vision that it says would be required to deliver a broad range of network, application and content services to end users.
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Comms Alliance's NBN expert named as NBN Co CTO - UPDATED
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-10-05 22:27:39
Gary McLaren, who has headed Communications Alliance's initiative to develop network specifications for the National Broadband Network, has been appointed CTO of NBN Co. Steve Christian, a former managing director of networks at Optus, has been named head of network operations. And Comms Alliance has named Paul Brooks to replace McLaren.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-10-05 22:27:39
Gary McLaren, who has headed Communications Alliance's initiative to develop network specifications for the National Broadband Network, has been appointed CTO of NBN Co. Steve Christian, a former managing director of networks at Optus, has been named head of network operations. And Comms Alliance has named Paul Brooks to replace McLaren.
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Tassie fibre laying JV misses out on first stage of NBN
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-24 00:44:41
Communications minister Stephen Conroy and Tasmanian premier, David Bartlett have announced commencement of work on the Cambridge to Midway Point section of the NBN in Tasmania, but a Tasmanian company championed just weeks ago by Bartlett is not involved.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-24 00:44:41
Communications minister Stephen Conroy and Tasmanian premier, David Bartlett have announced commencement of work on the Cambridge to Midway Point section of the NBN in Tasmania, but a Tasmanian company championed just weeks ago by Bartlett is not involved.
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For what the NBN will mean tomorrow, look at AARNet today
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-17 19:06:18
Australia's academic and research network today provides bandwidths well in excess of what the NBN will deliver, and cutting edge applications that exploit that bandwidth. CEO, Chris Hancock says they provide a foretaste of what the NBN will deliver to consumers and other users a few years down the track.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-17 19:06:18
Australia's academic and research network today provides bandwidths well in excess of what the NBN will deliver, and cutting edge applications that exploit that bandwidth. CEO, Chris Hancock says they provide a foretaste of what the NBN will deliver to consumers and other users a few years down the track.
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NBN design for end users should start now, says Deloitte
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-17 01:25:14
NBN Co is only in the early stages of designing the national broadband network, but according to Deloitte, it should already be factoring likely end user demands into its plans.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-17 01:25:14
NBN Co is only in the early stages of designing the national broadband network, but according to Deloitte, it should already be factoring likely end user demands into its plans.
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NBN should not have RF channel for cable TV, says Ericsson
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-16 01:21:20
iTWire understands that part of the capacity on the NBN will be set aside to bandwidth to carry cable TV services, as presently delivered over the Optus and Telstra HFC networks. This is not a good idea, according to Ericsson.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-16 01:21:20
iTWire understands that part of the capacity on the NBN will be set aside to bandwidth to carry cable TV services, as presently delivered over the Optus and Telstra HFC networks. This is not a good idea, according to Ericsson.
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NBN Co chief reveals first details of NBN architecture
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-15 20:04:48
NBN Co executive chairman, Mike Quigley, has revealed the company's initial views on the NBN architecture: layer 2 bitstream services delivered to a battery-backed-up outdoor unit at the home and accessed by service providers at major capital city points of interconnect with more local PoIs for smaller providers.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-15 20:04:48
NBN Co executive chairman, Mike Quigley, has revealed the company's initial views on the NBN architecture: layer 2 bitstream services delivered to a battery-backed-up outdoor unit at the home and accessed by service providers at major capital city points of interconnect with more local PoIs for smaller providers.
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The NBN is dead – long live the new Telstra powered NBN?
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2009-09-15 09:14:08
Australia’s federal government has come out with an offer that Australia’s dominant and supposedly independent telco, Telstra, seemingly cannot refuse: structurally separate the company or the government will do it for you.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2009-09-15 09:14:08
Australia’s federal government has come out with an offer that Australia’s dominant and supposedly independent telco, Telstra, seemingly cannot refuse: structurally separate the company or the government will do it for you.
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Telstra faces structural separation: Government ultimatum
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-14 20:48:46
Telstra has been given an ultimatum by the government: either cease to be both an owner of and service provider on the PSTN or face forced functional separation, divestiture of its HFC and Foxtel assets and limitations on spectrum acquisition.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-14 20:48:46
Telstra has been given an ultimatum by the government: either cease to be both an owner of and service provider on the PSTN or face forced functional separation, divestiture of its HFC and Foxtel assets and limitations on spectrum acquisition.
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New joint venture hopes to lay the fibre for Tasmanian NBN
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-02 00:49:55
Abigroup Contractors and Tasmanian horizontal drilling specialist Apache Services (Tasmania) have formed a joint venture to install optical fibre cable in Tasmania.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-02 00:49:55
Abigroup Contractors and Tasmanian horizontal drilling specialist Apache Services (Tasmania) have formed a joint venture to install optical fibre cable in Tasmania.
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Telstra & NBN Co in negotiations "at the highest level"
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-08-30 03:06:03
The chair of the Tasmanian NBN Co, (and board member of the national NBN Co) Doug Campbell has revealed that NBN Co and Telstra are in negotiations "at the highest level' for Telstra to become a customer of the NBN and a significant shareholder in NBN Co.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-08-30 03:06:03
The chair of the Tasmanian NBN Co, (and board member of the national NBN Co) Doug Campbell has revealed that NBN Co and Telstra are in negotiations "at the highest level' for Telstra to become a customer of the NBN and a significant shareholder in NBN Co.
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NBN Co joins Communications Alliance
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-08-23 21:35:12
NBN Company has joined Communications Alliance, the peak body for the Australian communications industry.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-08-23 21:35:12
NBN Company has joined Communications Alliance, the peak body for the Australian communications industry.
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Final three Tas NBN Company board members named
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-08-20 23:25:40
Communications minister Stephen Conroy has named the final three directors to the board of the Tasmania NBN Company: senior Tasmanian public servant Mark Kelleher, Hobart academic Dr Daniel Norton and senior business executive Sean Woellner.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-08-20 23:25:40
Communications minister Stephen Conroy has named the final three directors to the board of the Tasmania NBN Company: senior Tasmanian public servant Mark Kelleher, Hobart academic Dr Daniel Norton and senior business executive Sean Woellner.
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Conroy offers $54m to fund regional and rural broadband projects
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-08-19 22:57:17
Communications minister, senator Stephen Conroy, has called for proposals to receive funding under the $60 million ($53.6m net) Digital Regions Initiative set up to fund projects that will deliver high-quality digital applications for education, health and emergency services over the National Broadband Network.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-08-19 22:57:17
Communications minister, senator Stephen Conroy, has called for proposals to receive funding under the $60 million ($53.6m net) Digital Regions Initiative set up to fund projects that will deliver high-quality digital applications for education, health and emergency services over the National Broadband Network.
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Aerial cables could halve the cost of NBN: Ericsson
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Networks
2009-08-19 02:49:03
Attaching NBN fibre to power poles instead of putting it in underground ducts would reduce the cost of the rollout by one third to a half, according to an Ericsson guru on NBN matters.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Networks
2009-08-19 02:49:03
Attaching NBN fibre to power poles instead of putting it in underground ducts would reduce the cost of the rollout by one third to a half, according to an Ericsson guru on NBN matters.
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Coalition senators oppose first NBN legislation
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-08-17 16:35:29
The Senate Committee enquiring into the legislation designed to facilitate the rollout of the National Broadband Network has tabled its report with coalition committee members calling for the legislation to apply only to the NBN implementation study, and for the government to return to the Parliament for fresh legislation should such be required.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-08-17 16:35:29
The Senate Committee enquiring into the legislation designed to facilitate the rollout of the National Broadband Network has tabled its report with coalition committee members calling for the legislation to apply only to the NBN implementation study, and for the government to return to the Parliament for fresh legislation should such be required.
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Conroy backs off on plans to mandate FTTH in greenfield sites
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-08-14 04:36:13
Communications minister Stephen Conroy has announced the formation of a stakeholder reference group to advise on fibre-to-the-premises broadband rollouts in greenfields property estates. Curiously his announcement makes no mention of his plans to mandate FTTH rollouts in greenfields by mid 2010, and the related page on the DBCDE web site has been amended to remove any reference to such a plan.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-08-14 04:36:13
Communications minister Stephen Conroy has announced the formation of a stakeholder reference group to advise on fibre-to-the-premises broadband rollouts in greenfields property estates. Curiously his announcement makes no mention of his plans to mandate FTTH rollouts in greenfields by mid 2010, and the related page on the DBCDE web site has been amended to remove any reference to such a plan.
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Coalition urges transparency on NBN Co salaries
Written By: James Riley
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-08-07 01:34:50
Government must publish salary and remuneration details for senior executives and board members of the NBN Company if the public is to have faith in the transparency of the $43 billion broadband project, Opposition communications spokesman Nick Minchin said.
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Written By: James Riley
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-08-07 01:34:50
Government must publish salary and remuneration details for senior executives and board members of the NBN Company if the public is to have faith in the transparency of the $43 billion broadband project, Opposition communications spokesman Nick Minchin said.
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